BBfanboy -> RE: I Have Returned (2/6/2020 2:07:59 AM)
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The game state at start is not indicative of what it will be a few weeks later, especially re: supply, fuel and available shipping. Within about five days SFO should have around 1 million supply and LA should have close to a million fuel. It will take about a month to reorganize you shipping from their scattered starting positions. I send the British/Commonwealth flagged ships west to Colombo and the US flagged ships east to WC USA. Once there, I organize them by capacity, range and speed and assign them to home ports: Colombo, Cape Town, Madras, for the British; EC USA SFO, Seattle, Prince Rupert and LA for the US ships. Troop ships go to Aden and SFO mostly. If you send troops from EC USA to Cape Town by shipless Strat move, you will need some transports at CT to bring them on map. Australian/Dutch/NZ/Free French shipping has to play the dance between supporting their forward units and fleeing the Japanese tide. Managing individual pilots is feasible in this game, but it would take you so long that the game would take years longer than the real war. Just manage the air units and pilots within will train as you set the unit orders. You only need to hand-pick pilots when you start to get some really good aircraft and want to set up a hotshot air unit. That is done using the "Request Veteran" button. Mines are not plentiful in the game on purpose. You need to be selective about where and when you will use them. Be aware that minefields are tracked by type of mine, location and date laid. Once the enemy discovers the minefield, in subsequent turns it will be much less effective and a new minefield might be better than creating a huge one from the get-go. You only need to escort your ships in areas where there is a definite sub threat. When escorts are extremely thin, escort near your ports and at known choke points, then send the supply TF on its way without escort but using evasive routing with waypoints. Troop and air unit convoys should always be well escorted and CVs should be used if possible to fend of raiding surface vessels.
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